Cigar City Brewing, Tampa brewery, has craft beer lovers in a tizzy

Cigar City Brewing in Tampa hasn’t even been around for two years yet. But with its focus on big and unusual beers, it’s already become legendary among beer lovers across the country. It only produced 800 barrels in its first nine months, but it’s added more equipment so it can produce close to 7,000 barrels a year.

But it’s still having trouble keeping up with demand. First of all, it produces a huge variety of beer, including a lot of special one-off batches. Beer Advocate has reviews of more than 100 Cigar City beers, though many of those are just slight variations that were only available in the Tampa tasting room.